LEXINGTON, Ky. (Feb. 9, 2021) — Gary Ferland, a professor in the University of Kentucky College of Arts and Sciences' Department of Physics and Astronomy, has been named a fellow by the American Astronomical Society (AAS). Ferland is one of 31 members recognized by the organization for his innovative and significant contributions to astronomy.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Feb. 17, 2021) — Nathaniel Stapleton, an assistant professor of mathematics in the University of Kentucky College of Arts and Sciences, has been named a 2021 Sloan Research Fellow by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The award honors early-career researchers.
Monument removals, the New York Times’ 1619 Project, the renaming of schools and more have all drawn unprecedented attention to the distortions and silences surrounding the history of race in the United States. This public reckoning has given the work of historians renewed urgency--and made the effort to uncover elements of the long-hidden past newly meaningful today. This talk, with UK A&S Distinguished Professor and historian Amy Murrell Taylor, will describe that work while telling the largely untold story of how slavery collapsed in a refugee crisis during the American Civil War. The hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children who fled slavery and sought refuge behind the lines of the Union army guaranteed the destruction of the institution once and for all. But it is only now, over 150 years later, that their experience is becoming visible and their names and identities known.
Amy Murrell Taylor is the T. Marshall Hahn Jr. Professor in the Department of History and a faculty affiliate of the African American and Africana Studies Program. A native of Rockville, Maryland, she received an AB in History from Duke University and an MA and PhD in History from the University of Virginia. She arrived at the University of Kentucky in 2012 after eleven years teaching at the University at Albany, State University of New York.
Taylor’s research on the history of the Civil War, Emancipation, and Reconstruction has been supported by fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies. Her most recent book, Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps (UNC Press, 2018), was honored with multiple national awards, including the Frederick Douglass Prize given by the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University, and the Merle Curti Social History Prize from the Organization of American Historians. Taylor is also the author of The Divided Family in Civil War America (UNC Press, 2005), and co-editor (with Michael Perman) of Major Problems in the Civil War and Reconstruction (Cengage, 2010). Her teaching at UK has been honored with the 2019 Provost’s Award for Outstanding Teaching, and the UK Alumni Association’s Great Teacher Award in 2016. She was named a University Research Professor in 2020.
We cannot understand where humanity has been and where we are going without Black Studies.
By Richard LeComte
Danielle Schaper, an experimental nuclear physics doctoral student and graduate assistant at the University of Kentucky and Los Alamos National Laboratory, has won the Harry Lustig Award from the American Physical Society.
A discussion led by Dr. Erika Lee on the history of xenophobia in the U.S., based on her book, America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States
Registration required to attend:
https://uky.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_NLPNRefEQiOPxnaaPwp1tg
Erika Lee is vice president of the Organization of American Historians and a Regents Professor, Distinguished McKnight University Professor, the Rudolph J. Vecoli Chair in Immigration History, and director of the Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota. She is an active public intellectual who is a sought-after speaker in the media, nationally and internationally. She’s the author or co-author of award-winning books in U.S. immigration and Asian American history, including “America for Americans”; “The Making of Asian America: A History”; “Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America” with Judy Yung; and “At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882–1943.”
This is the opening program for the Commonwealth Institute for Black Studies at the University of Kentucky. This major inaugural event will feature an address from Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, Jr., the American literary critic, professor, filmmaker, public intellectual, and host of "Finding Your Roots," a groundbreaking genealogy series on PBS. He also serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.
The Commonwealth Institute for Black Studies is a multidisciplinary research institute housed in the College of Arts & Sciences' Department of African American and Africana Studies (AAAS). It is a cutting-edge research think tank for Black Studies research, including issues of race and racism.
By Richard LeComte
LEXINGTON, KY. -- One member of the University of Kentucky’s College of Arts & Sciences is contributing to the cultural life in Lexington during the COVID-19 pandemic with a colorful painting at a local gallery.
